In a Friday ceremony, a parkette at Avenue Road and Dupont Street will be named in honor of Sergeant Ryan Russell, the Toronto police officer who died after being struck by a stolen snow plow in January. The 35-year-old officer had been attempting to stop the runaway snowplow when he was run over and killed. […]

There are “no reasonable grounds” on which to criminally charge the Toronto police officer who shot a man accused of stealing a snowplow and killing Sergeant Ryan Russell in the early hours of Jan. 12, the province’s independent police investigator said Wednesday. Nearly four months after Sgt. Russell died trying to stop the stolen snowplow […]

Murdered children, slain police officers and brutally culled huskies. Our hearts go out to these victims, and yet we barely bat an eye when a prison inmate is beaten to death or a prostitute’s body turns up on the side of the road. Ezzat Fattah, one of Canada’s pioneers in victims studies, wants more of […]

Re: How Bill 101 Saved Canada, Tasha Kheiriddin, Feb. 8 If your neighbour told you which schools he was going to allow your children to attend, you would question his mental stability and rightly send him packing. When politicians tell us the same thing, however, we roll over with nary a fuss. But initiating force […]

Re: Costly Mourning Of A Fallen Officer, letter to the editor, Jan. 19. The murmurs of discontent over the massive police funeral in Toronto on Tuesday for Sergeant Ryan Russell — Was it overkill? Was it a giant flexing of union muscle? Was it a waste of money? — overlook an essential fact of policing. […]

Comment To paraphrase an old saying about atheists and fox holes, there are no police-haters in a city where a madman is wreaking havoc with a stolen snowplow. Sergeant Ryan Russell lost his life doing precisely the sort of thing civilized countries like Canada need police officers to do, and it’s entirely appropriate that he […]

I have always had faith in cops, but lately that faith has been shaken. A string of bad-apple incidents involving Canadian police officers — the latest a brutal take-down of a Kelowna, B.C. man who had been out shooing birds from a golf course — have caused me to question my trust in frontline officers. […]